Hi,

Thanks for the feedback. Yes I agree that Atmel Studio (VS 2010) is slow to load especially on older hardware. Hopefully Atmel move to using Visual Studio 2012 or 2013 which load very quickly compared to 2010. I have my fingers crossed!!

Not sure I understand this? 

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Are you referring to the tool windows, edit windows and explorers such as solution explorer? If so they work well for me and I like the flexibility to either either float, drop hide etc. I do however recall that on slow older hardware the processor can't copy when windows are being moved and it feels very clunky.

Did you previously mention you were running xp? Can you please explain a little about the specification of your hardware? cpu/memory,model,age etc. Thanks I think this will important to understand your perspective.

There should be an EASY option to disable unused "buttons". 

I am not sure I understand. You can click the little down arrow on all tool bars and custom the appearance, hide/remove/resize all buttons. You can remove everything and change most things around in Atmel Studio. 

There is even more flexibility in the Visual Studio Pro systems where you can create your own buttons and menu items attaching macros and workflows.

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Okay well this is the part that we are involved with in providing and supporting this free Arduino development plugin. Visual Micro is bolted into Atmel Studio and Visual Studio in an attempt to allow people to use their preferred Ide (the one the know and like) for Arduino development. So yes, Visual Micro forces these Ide's to provide simple and robust Arduino programming but these Ide's do not naively understand Arduino.

I agree this is a useful solution but not entirely ideal. The perfect solution would be to have a dedicated Ide but creating an Ide that people want to use it a huge task and it seems better to use what many people know and like. 

Thanks again for the feed back, pleased you managed to fix your crashes and have something of some use to help with your projects.